Quiz submission record for quiz2-1-2 at Mon Jun 28 10:47:19 2004: Your Answer for Question 1: 1. Comments are not translated because they are only to communicate with the viewers of the code. 2. Preprocessors are not translated directly to MIPS code, because they make programs customizable, easier to develop, easier to read, and easier to modify. Your Answer for Question 2: add $k, $k, 1 # k++ Your Answer for Question 3: It's an interesting that C does not communicate with the machine directly but first compiles the code into machine language. I recall talking about metacircular evaluator in 61A. Your unique submission ID is quiz2-1-2-cs61c-ew-1088444839-2613.